History of animation

“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but rather the art of movements that are drawn.  What happens between each frame is more important than what happens on each frame”.

- Norman Mclaren

This lecture was on the history of animation and how it evolved over the years, it began with an introduction to an early 2D animated film 'Fantasmagorie'(1908), it is a creative piece  with character animation not driven by story yet still engaging and entertaining. We were also shown a CGI remake and homage from 2008 and despite the fact that 3D is the current technology it seemed in my opinion very robotic and lifeless where as the original had more freedom of transforming or metamorphosis. 

 

You need good story telling to make a feature film and in 1937, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' was was the first animated feature made possible by Walt Disney, the quality of animation was fantastic and the characters had more life. 

 

The first computer animated short The Adventures of André and Wally B was made in 1984 by John Lasseter. it was a revolutionary breakthrough in the world of animation and led people to see the possibilities within this newly found art form, in this short everything was computer animated, including the characters. After this short CGI film, things would continue to grow until it became Toy Story, the first ever computer-animated feature film.



Animation continued to break barriers and eventually developed into computer animation which led to the first animated CGI feature length film Toy story (1995)